Population in Taiwan compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Taiwan and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Taiwan	United Kingdom	Taiwan	United Kingdom
1960	-	52,400,000	-	-
1961	11,030,385	52,800,000	-	0.76%
1962	11,392,513	53,250,000	3.28%	0.85%
1963	11,762,101	53,650,000	3.24%	0.75%
1964	12,137,143	54,000,000	3.19%	0.65%
1965	12,511,863	54,348,050	3.09%	0.64%
1966	12,874,153	54,648,500	2.9%	0.55%
1967	13,210,344	54,943,600	2.61%	0.54%
1968	13,548,537	55,211,700	2.56%	0.49%
1969	14,068,984	55,441,750	3.84%	0.42%
1970	14,582,944	55,663,250	3.65%	0.4%
1971	14,913,564	55,896,223	2.27%	0.42%
1972	15,220,495	56,086,065	2.06%	0.34%
1973	15,505,121	56,194,527	1.87%	0.19%
1974	15,784,817	56,229,974	1.8%	0.06%
1975	16,075,128	56,225,800	1.84%	-0.007%
1976	16,401,413	56,211,968	2.03%	-0.02%
1977	16,730,895	56,193,492	2.01%	-0.03%
1978	17,042,272	56,196,504	1.86%	0.005%
1979	17,372,779	56,246,951	1.94%	0.09%
1980	17,704,538	56,314,216	1.91%	0.12%
1981	18,029,982	56,333,829	1.84%	0.03%
1982	18,354,855	56,313,641	1.8%	-0.04%
1983	18,653,146	56,332,848	1.63%	0.03%
1984	18,929,866	56,422,072	1.48%	0.16%
1985	19,191,510	56,550,268	1.38%	0.23%
1986	19,411,454	56,681,396	1.15%	0.23%
1987	19,617,046	56,802,050	1.06%	0.21%
1988	19,839,704	56,928,327	1.14%	0.22%
1989	20,055,492	57,076,711	1.09%	0.26%
1990	20,278,946	57,247,586	1.11%	0.3%
1991	20,503,568	57,424,897	1.11%	0.31%
1992	20,704,227	57,580,402	0.98%	0.27%
1993	20,899,019	57,718,614	0.94%	0.24%
1994	21,086,645	57,865,745	0.9%	0.25%
1995	21,267,653	58,019,030	0.86%	0.26%
1996	21,441,432	58,166,950	0.82%	0.25%
1997	21,634,124	58,316,954	0.9%	0.26%
1998	21,835,703	58,487,141	0.93%	0.29%
1999	22,010,489	58,682,466	0.8%	0.33%
2000	22,184,530	58,892,514	0.79%	0.36%
2001	22,341,120	59,119,673	0.71%	0.39%
2002	22,463,172	59,370,479	0.55%	0.42%
2003	22,562,663	59,647,577	0.44%	0.47%
2004	22,646,836	59,987,905	0.37%	0.57%
2005	22,729,753	60,401,206	0.37%	0.69%
2006	22,823,455	60,846,820	0.41%	0.74%
2007	22,917,444	61,322,463	0.41%	0.78%
2008	22,997,696	61,806,995	0.35%	0.79%
2009	23,078,402	62,276,270	0.35%	0.76%
2010	23,140,948	62,766,365	0.27%	0.79%
2011	23,193,518	63,258,810	0.23%	0.78%
2012	23,270,367	63,711,000	0.33%	0.71%
2013	23,344,670	64,139,000	0.32%	0.67%
2014	23,403,635	64,620,000	0.25%	0.75%
2015	23,462,914	65,088,000	0.25%	0.72%
2016	23,515,945	65,607,000	0.23%	0.8%
2017	23,555,522	65,966,000	0.17%	0.55%
2018	23,580,080	66,289,000	0.1%	0.49%
2019	23,596,027	66,631,000	0.07%	0.52%
2020	23,582,179	66,744,000	-0.06%	0.17%
2021	23,468,275	66,984,000	-0.48%	0.36%
2022	23,319,977	67,604,000	-0.63%	0.93%
2023	23,342,541	68,492,000	0.1%	1.31%
2024	23,410,331	69,226,000	0.29%	1.07%
2025	23,308,308	69,639,673	-0.44%	0.6%
2026	23,205,944	70,020,350	-0.44%	0.55%
2027	23,102,120	70,382,853	-0.45%	0.52%
2028	22,996,693	70,732,699	-0.46%	0.5%
2029	22,890,335	71,061,482	-0.46%	0.46%
2030	22,781,040	71,377,535	-0.48%	0.44%
2031	22,667,327	71,678,351	-0.5%	0.42%
2032	22,549,689	71,959,934	-0.52%	0.39%
2033	22,428,721	72,234,509	-0.54%	0.38%
2034	22,302,402	72,497,650	-0.56%	0.36%
2035	22,170,689	72,749,096	-0.59%	0.35%
2036	22,034,775	72,990,847	-0.61%	0.33%
2037	21,893,029	73,218,850	-0.64%	0.31%
2038	21,746,001	73,441,349	-0.67%	0.3%
2039	21,594,236	73,658,392	-0.7%	0.3%
2040	21,436,947	73,868,334	-0.73%	0.29%
2041	21,274,187	74,074,316	-0.76%	0.28%
2042	21,105,682	74,275,779	-0.79%	0.27%
2043	20,932,105	74,475,035	-0.82%	0.27%
2044	20,754,623	74,667,284	-0.85%	0.26%
2045	20,571,741	74,848,605	-0.88%	0.24%
2046	20,384,903	75,020,949	-0.91%	0.23%
2047	20,194,425	75,184,478	-0.93%	0.22%
2048	19,999,753	75,337,543	-0.96%	0.2%
2049	19,801,293	75,476,141	-0.99%	0.18%
2050	19,598,997	75,600,588	-1.02%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Taiwan increased by 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Taiwan lost -154,606 (a 0.66% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Taiwan was ranked 48th most populous country in 2005 and is 60th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Taiwan's population will shrink by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people with a rank change from 60th to 76th. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.